Texas man, Javier Alan Correa, charged with violating the civil rights of members of a Murfreesboro, Tenn. mosque by saying the mosque would bombed on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. “Listen up you fucking Muslim bitches, go back to your fucking dirty fucking country, fucking Muslim fascists, get the fuck out of here,” he allegedly stated.
The Obama administration’s legal claim to secrecy around the U.S. drone program buzzes toward the absurd.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer calls out the GOP: “…there are a lot people in Washington who want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship in order to do so.”
At his speech today to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Mitt Romney managed to duck the roiling question of what he would do about President Obama’s mini-Dream Act, pushed through last week by administration directive. Romney says he would “replace” and “supersede” it with something better but declined to say what the better thing would be. Watch the video.
Mitt did restate his support for a path to citizenship for people who came illegally as children and later served in the military.
Accused murderer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, has released to the press his own version of what happened the night he shot Trayvon Martin, including the statement he gave police the night of the shooting.
Until a couple months ago, I think most political news junkies would’ve predicted confidently that Mitt Romney’s biggest threat from within his own party came from House conservatives. That assumption may ultimately be vindicated, but today’s news makes it clear that his immediate challenge comes from swing state Republican governors, who are boasting to voters about the economic recoveries in their states. When your entire campaign depends on fomenting gloom about the economy, having such renown liberals as Rick Scott and Scott Walker heralding the morning in Florida and Wisconsin … well, let’s just say it doesn’t help. It exposes a palpable tension between the mixed reality of President Obama’s economic record, and Romney’s caricature of it.
It’s a rich story. Read More
We’ve got the first nuggets out of Mitt Romney big immigration speech coming later today. And the gist seems to be that he’s going to duck the question of whether he’s for or against, would keep or change President Obama’s new mini-Dream Act. More soon.
The story of the Romney campaign trying to get the extremely unpopular Gov. Rick Scott of Florida to stop crowing about recent job growth in his state is, on one level, just a clumsy leak and a bad news cycle. (Here are the statements from the Scott camp that got Romney and Co. so freaked.) But it lays bare a key dynamic in the 2012 cycle. While the national economy is now sputtering, in key states it’s actually doing fairly well. And as luck or bad luck would have it, several of those states are critical national swing states — most notably, states in the industrial midwest like Ohio and the critical state of Virginia. Read More